Following the successful launch of Manhunt, the publishers launched a similar magazine as Verdict but it never made a mark in a crowded market and folded after only 4 issues, The same publishers tried again three years later but, again, the magazine folded after a brief run.
CONTENTS:
Verdict [v1 #4, September 1953] (Flying Eagle Publications, Inc., 35¢, digest)
1 · Three O’Clock · William Irish · nv Detective Fiction Weekly October 1, 1938, as by Cornell Woolrich
25 · Dead Man · James M. Cain · ss The American Mercury March 1936
34 · The Amazing Dip · Fredric Brown · ss Detective Fiction Weekly July 13, 1940, as “Trouble In A Teacup”
43 · Tricks Of The Trade · Dan Sontup · ms
46 · Material Witness · George Harmon Coxe · ss Detective Fiction Weekly October 28, 1933
61 · Keeper Of The Killed [Johnny Liddell] · Frank Kane · ss Crack Detective Stories February 1948
84 · Motive [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · vi
86 · Fer-de-Lance [Part 4 of 4; Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · sl Viking 1934
132 · What’s In A Name? · John C. Craig · ms
134 · Vicious Circle · Evan Hunter · ss Real March 1953, as “Murder Comes Easy”
ibc. · What’s Your Verdict? · Leonard S. Gray · pz